Notice of Inventory Completion: Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN, 51480-51481 [2020-18234]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
51480
Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 162 / Thursday, August 20, 2020 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCO956000 L14400000.BJ0000 20X]
Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey,
Colorado
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of official filing.
AGENCY:
The plats of survey of the
following described lands are scheduled
to be officially filed in the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM), Colorado
State Office, Lakewood, Colorado, 30
calendar days from the date of this
publication. The surveys, which were
executed at the request of the U.S.
Forest Service and the BLM, are
necessary for the management of these
lands.
DATES: Unless there are protests of this
action, the plats described in this notice
will be filed on September 21, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit written
protests to the BLM Colorado State
Office, Cadastral Survey, 2850
Youngfield Street, Lakewood, CO
80215–7210.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Randy Bloom, Chief Cadastral Surveyor
for Colorado, (303) 239–3856; rbloom@
blm.gov. Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
may call the Federal Relay Service at 1–
800–877–8339 to contact the above
individual during normal business
hours. The Service is available 24 hours
a day, seven days a week, to leave a
message or question with the above
individual. You will receive a reply
during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The plat,
in 2 sheets, incorporating the field notes
of the dependent resurvey and survey in
the SW1/4NE1/4 of section 12 in
Township 1 North, Range 102 West,
Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, was
accepted on July 21, 2020.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 36 North, Range 1 West, New
Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado,
was accepted on August 10, 2020.
A person or party who wishes to
protest any of the above surveys must
file a written notice of protest within 30
calendar days from the date of this
publication at the address listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice. A
statement of reasons for the protest may
be filed with the notice of protest and
must be filed within 30 calendar days
after the protest is filed. If a protest
against the survey is received prior to
the date of official filing, the filing will
jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES
SUMMARY:
VerDate Sep<11>2014
18:01 Aug 19, 2020
Jkt 250001
be stayed pending consideration of the
protest. A plat will not be officially filed
until the day after all protests have been
dismissed or otherwise resolved. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your protest,
please be aware that your entire protest,
including your personal identifying
information, may be made publicly
available at any time. While you can ask
us in your comment to withhold your
personal identifying information from
public review, we cannot guarantee that
we will be able to do so.
Authority: 43 U.S.C. Chap. 3.
Randy A. Bloom,
Chief Cadastral Surveyor.
[FR Doc. 2020–18300 Filed 8–19–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030729;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville,
TN
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) has completed an
inventory of associated funerary objects,
in consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes, and has determined that
a cultural affiliation between the
associated funerary objects and presentday Indian Tribes can reasonably be
traced. Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian Tribe not
identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of the
associated funerary objects should
submit a written request to the TVA. If
no additional requestors come forward,
transfer of control of the associated
funerary objects to the Indian Tribes
stated in this notice may proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian Tribe not
identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of the
associated funerary objects should
submit a written request with
information in support of the request to
the TVA at the address in this notice by
September 21, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Thomas O. Maher,
Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West
Summit Hill Drive, WT11C, Knoxville,
TN 37902–1401, telephone (865) 632–
7458, email tomaher@tva.gov.
SUMMARY:
PO 00000
Frm 00078
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
Notice is
here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
3003, of the completion of an inventory
of associated funerary objects under the
control of the Tennessee Valley
Authority, Knoxville, TN. The
associated funerary objects were
removed from an archeological site in
Marshall County, AL.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
this notice are the sole responsibility of
the museum, institution, or Federal
agency that has control of the Native
American associated funerary objects.
The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the
associated funerary objects was made by
TVA professional staff in consultation
with representatives of the Absentee
Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma;
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
(previously listed as Alabama-Coushatta
Tribes of Texas); Cherokee Nation;
Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians; Poarch Band
of Creeks (previously listed as Poarch
Band of Creek Indians of Alabama); The
Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw Nation
of Oklahoma; The Muscogee (Creek)
Nation; The Seminole Nation of
Oklahoma; and the United Keetoowah
Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma
(hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Consulted
Tribes’’).
History and Description of the
Associated Funerary Objects
The site listed in this notice,
archeological site 1MS32, was excavated
as part of TVA’s Guntersville Reservoir
project by the Alabama Museum of
Natural History (AMNH) at the
University of Alabama, using labor and
funds provided by the Works Progress
Administration. Details regarding these
excavations may be found in ‘‘An
Archaeological Survey of Guntersville
Basin on the Tennessee River in
Northern Alabama,’’ by William S.
Webb and Charles G. Wilder. Human
remains and associated funerary objects
from site 1MS32 were listed in a Notice
of Inventory Completion in 2019 (84,
FR, 18082–18084, April 29, 2019). All
the cultural items listed in that notice
have been transferred to the AlabamaCoushatta Tribe of Texas (previously
listed as Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of
Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal
Town; Cherokee Nation; Coushatta
E:\FR\FM\20AUN1.SGM
20AUN1
jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 162 / Thursday, August 20, 2020 / Notices
Tribe of Louisiana; Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians; The Muscogee
(Creek) Nation and the United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma. Recently, additional
associated funerary objects were
discovered during a review of TVA’s
archeological collection at the AMNH.
On July 21, 1937, excavation of burial
44 took place at the McKee Island site,
1MS32, in Marshall County, AL,
following TVA’s acquisition of the site
on November 12, 1936. The two
associated funerary objects listed in this
notice are copper collars.
Site 1MS32 was a midden-rich village
extending 800 feet along a ridge of the
now-inundated McKee Island. While
there are no radiocarbon dates from this
site, Jon Marcoux’s study of glass beads
from 1MS32 indicates a historic
occupation in the range of A.D. 1650–
1750. Similarly, analysis of brass bells
recovered from this site suggests an
occupation range from the late 1600s
through the 1700s. During this period,
multiple tribes were using the
Guntersville Reservoir area. Chronicles
from Spanish explorers of the 16th
century and French explorers of the
17th and 18th century indicate the
presence of chiefdom-level tribal
entities in the southeastern United
States that resemble the historic Native
American chiefdoms. Linguistic
analysis of place names noted by
multiple Spanish explorers indicates
that Koasati-speaking Muskogean
groups inhabited northeastern Alabama.
Early maps and research into the
historic Native American occupation of
northeastern Alabama indicate that in
the 17th and 18th centuries, the Koasati
(as they were called by the English) or
the Kaskinampo (as they were called by
the French) were found at multiple sites
in Jackson and Marshall Counties. Oral
history, traditions, and expert opinions
of the descendants of the Koasati/
Kaskinampo and Muscogee (Creek)
indicate that this portion of the
Tennessee River valley was the
homelands of their Tribes. Oral
traditional information also indicates
that by the middle 1700s, the Koasati/
Kaskinampo were leaving the Tennessee
River valley and moving south.
Both British and American historians
indicate that some Cherokee were
leaving their traditional Tribal lands in
the Appalachian Mountains and the
Little Tennessee River watershed in the
1700s. In the 1770s, a group of
Cherokee, often designated the
Chickamauga in historical documents,
had relocated to areas northeast of
present-day Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Reprisals by American militia for
Cherokee support of the British during
VerDate Sep<11>2014
18:01 Aug 19, 2020
Jkt 250001
the American Revolution forced these
Cherokee further down the Tennessee
River; by 1785–1790, there were named
Cherokee villages in the Guntersville
Reservoir area. At the same time, the
Koasati, Muscogee (Creek), and
Cherokee all hunted in the Tennessee
Valley. Consequently, a relationship of
shared group identity can reasonably be
traced between the above earlier groups
and their present-day descendant tribes,
which include the Alabama-Coushatta
Tribe of Texas (previously listed as
Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas);
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town;
Cherokee Nation; Coushatta Tribe of
Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation;
and the United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
Determinations Made by the Tennessee
Valley Authority
Officials of the Tennessee Valley
Authority have determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
the two objects described in this notice
are reasonably believed to have been
placed with or near individual human
remains at the time of death or later as
part of the death rite or ceremony.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(2)(C),
while the Native American associated
funerary objects are not clearly
identifiable as being culturally
identifiable to a single Indian Tribe, the
Tennessee Valley Authority has
determined by a reasonable belief that,
given the totality of circumstances,
these objects are culturally affiliated
with the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of
Texas (previously listed as AlabamaCoushatta Tribes of Texas); AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town; Cherokee
Nation; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana;
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; The
Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and the
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indians in Oklahoma (hereafter referred
to as ‘‘The Tribes’’).
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives
of any Indian Tribe not identified in this
notice that wish to request transfer of
control of the associated funerary
objects should submit a written request
with information in support of the
request to Dr. Thomas O. Maher,
Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West
Summit Hill Drive, WT11C, Knoxville,
TN 37902–1401, telephone (865) 632–
7458, email tomaher@tva.gov, by
September 21, 2020. After that date, if
no additional requestors have come
forward, transfer of control of the
associated funerary objects to The
Tribes may proceed.
PO 00000
Frm 00079
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
51481
The Tennessee Valley Authority is
responsible for notifying The Consulted
Tribes that this notice has been
published.
Dated: August 3, 2020.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2020–18234 Filed 8–19–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030662;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion:
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Department of Anthropology, Amherst,
MA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The University of
Massachusetts Amherst, Department of
Anthropology, has completed an
inventory of human remains, in
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations and has determined that
there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and present-day Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not
identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these
human remains should submit a written
request to the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. If no additional
requestors come forward, transfer of
control of the human remains to the
lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or
Native Hawaiian organizations stated in
this notice may proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not
identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these
human remains should submit a written
request with information in support of
the request to the University of
Massachusetts Amherst at the address in
this notice by September 21, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Julie Woods, Repatriation
Coordinator, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, 215 Machmer
Hall, 240 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA
01003, telephone (413) 545–2702, email
woods@umass.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
SUMMARY:
E:\FR\FM\20AUN1.SGM
20AUN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 162 (Thursday, August 20, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51480-51481]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-18234]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0030729; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Tennessee Valley Authority,
Knoxville, TN
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has completed an
inventory of associated funerary objects, in consultation with the
appropriate Indian Tribes, and has determined that a cultural
affiliation between the associated funerary objects and present-day
Indian Tribes can reasonably be traced. Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian Tribe not identified in this notice that
wish to request transfer of control of the associated funerary objects
should submit a written request to the TVA. If no additional requestors
come forward, transfer of control of the associated funerary objects to
the Indian Tribes stated in this notice may proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe not
identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of
the associated funerary objects should submit a written request with
information in support of the request to the TVA at the address in this
notice by September 21, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Thomas O. Maher, Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West
Summit Hill Drive, WT11C, Knoxville, TN 37902-1401, telephone (865)
632-7458, email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of associated funerary
objects under the control of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville,
TN. The associated funerary objects were removed from an archeological
site in Marshall County, AL.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native
American associated funerary objects. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the associated funerary objects was made
by TVA professional staff in consultation with representatives of the
Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Alabama-Coushatta Tribe
of Texas (previously listed as Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas);
Cherokee Nation; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians; Poarch Band of Creeks (previously listed as Poarch Band of
Creek Indians of Alabama); The Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma;
and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma
(hereafter referred to as ``The Consulted Tribes'').
History and Description of the Associated Funerary Objects
The site listed in this notice, archeological site 1MS32, was
excavated as part of TVA's Guntersville Reservoir project by the
Alabama Museum of Natural History (AMNH) at the University of Alabama,
using labor and funds provided by the Works Progress Administration.
Details regarding these excavations may be found in ``An Archaeological
Survey of Guntersville Basin on the Tennessee River in Northern
Alabama,'' by William S. Webb and Charles G. Wilder. Human remains and
associated funerary objects from site 1MS32 were listed in a Notice of
Inventory Completion in 2019 (84, FR, 18082-18084, April 29, 2019). All
the cultural items listed in that notice have been transferred to the
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas (previously listed as Alabama-
Coushatta Tribes of Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; Cherokee
Nation; Coushatta
[[Page 51481]]
Tribe of Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; The Muscogee
(Creek) Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma. Recently, additional associated funerary objects were
discovered during a review of TVA's archeological collection at the
AMNH.
On July 21, 1937, excavation of burial 44 took place at the McKee
Island site, 1MS32, in Marshall County, AL, following TVA's acquisition
of the site on November 12, 1936. The two associated funerary objects
listed in this notice are copper collars.
Site 1MS32 was a midden-rich village extending 800 feet along a
ridge of the now-inundated McKee Island. While there are no radiocarbon
dates from this site, Jon Marcoux's study of glass beads from 1MS32
indicates a historic occupation in the range of A.D. 1650-1750.
Similarly, analysis of brass bells recovered from this site suggests an
occupation range from the late 1600s through the 1700s. During this
period, multiple tribes were using the Guntersville Reservoir area.
Chronicles from Spanish explorers of the 16th century and French
explorers of the 17th and 18th century indicate the presence of
chiefdom-level tribal entities in the southeastern United States that
resemble the historic Native American chiefdoms. Linguistic analysis of
place names noted by multiple Spanish explorers indicates that Koasati-
speaking Muskogean groups inhabited northeastern Alabama. Early maps
and research into the historic Native American occupation of
northeastern Alabama indicate that in the 17th and 18th centuries, the
Koasati (as they were called by the English) or the Kaskinampo (as they
were called by the French) were found at multiple sites in Jackson and
Marshall Counties. Oral history, traditions, and expert opinions of the
descendants of the Koasati/Kaskinampo and Muscogee (Creek) indicate
that this portion of the Tennessee River valley was the homelands of
their Tribes. Oral traditional information also indicates that by the
middle 1700s, the Koasati/Kaskinampo were leaving the Tennessee River
valley and moving south.
Both British and American historians indicate that some Cherokee
were leaving their traditional Tribal lands in the Appalachian
Mountains and the Little Tennessee River watershed in the 1700s. In the
1770s, a group of Cherokee, often designated the Chickamauga in
historical documents, had relocated to areas northeast of present-day
Chattanooga, Tennessee. Reprisals by American militia for Cherokee
support of the British during the American Revolution forced these
Cherokee further down the Tennessee River; by 1785-1790, there were
named Cherokee villages in the Guntersville Reservoir area. At the same
time, the Koasati, Muscogee (Creek), and Cherokee all hunted in the
Tennessee Valley. Consequently, a relationship of shared group identity
can reasonably be traced between the above earlier groups and their
present-day descendant tribes, which include the Alabama-Coushatta
Tribe of Texas (previously listed as Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of
Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; Cherokee Nation; Coushatta Tribe
of Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; The Muscogee (Creek)
Nation; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
Determinations Made by the Tennessee Valley Authority
Officials of the Tennessee Valley Authority have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the two objects
described in this notice are reasonably believed to have been placed
with or near individual human remains at the time of death or later as
part of the death rite or ceremony.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(2)(C), while the Native
American associated funerary objects are not clearly identifiable as
being culturally identifiable to a single Indian Tribe, the Tennessee
Valley Authority has determined by a reasonable belief that, given the
totality of circumstances, these objects are culturally affiliated with
the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas (previously listed as Alabama-
Coushatta Tribes of Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; Cherokee
Nation; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians;
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indians in Oklahoma (hereafter referred to as ``The Tribes'').
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe not
identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of
the associated funerary objects should submit a written request with
information in support of the request to Dr. Thomas O. Maher, Tennessee
Valley Authority, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT11C, Knoxville, TN
37902-1401, telephone (865) 632-7458, email [email protected], by
September 21, 2020. After that date, if no additional requestors have
come forward, transfer of control of the associated funerary objects to
The Tribes may proceed.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is responsible for notifying The
Consulted Tribes that this notice has been published.
Dated: August 3, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2020-18234 Filed 8-19-20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
